From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole, a foremost expert in elephant behavior, and her husband, Petter ...

Even without training, it is possible for onlookers to assess pain and lameness in ridden horses using an ethogram, research has shown. Dr Sue Dyson, head of clinical orthopaedics at the Centre for ...

For years it’s been thought that horses who swish their tail, put their ears back and open their mouth when being ridden are behaving negatively. However, recent research by vet Sue Dyson, a ...

National Geographic Explorer Joyce Poole reflects on her life’s achievement: an ethogram cataloguing nearly 50 years of data on African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole records elephant vocalizations in ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior. Here ...

When a male African savanna elephant folds his ears while simultaneously waving them, he’s ready for a fight. When a female folds her ears and accompanies the action with an ear flap, that means she’s ...

"Animal Behavior for Young Explorers“ is the theme of a special outreach program to be presented by The Ethogram, members of the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group. The free public event, geared ...

Elephant scientist Joyce Poole and her husband Petter Granli have been working on a huge online database called the Elephant Ethogram for the last five years. The Elephant Ethogram is a kind of like a ...